NCAA president Mark Emmert said Tuesday that it won't mandate or oversee a uniform return to college sports.
"Normally there's an agreed upon start date for every sport, every season," Emmert told ESPN's Heather Dinich, "but under these circumstances, now that's all been derailed by the pandemic. It won't be the conferences that can do that, either. It will be the local and state health officials that say whether or not you can open and play football with fans."
On Tuesday, a number of PAC-12 football coaches said they supported a possible NCAA-mandated uniform start.